News and insights on thoroughbred horse breeding from around the world.
Although Peintre Celebre and Thunder Gulch are being pensioned, it is hard not to see these two wonderful thoroughbreds continuing to have an impact on major races for years to come.
South African buying power was in evidence during Book 1 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale with the purchase of 5 lots
Storm Cat, sire of 4 Breeders Cup winners and broodmare sire of Cup heroes Speightstown (Gone West) and Folklore (Tiznow), has left a lasting mark on the Breeders Cup races, and his momentum shows no sign of slowing down.
We are deeply saddened to report the passing of Zenyatta’s filly, affectionately nicknamed Z Princess
Coolmore Stud in Tipperary will now house six winners of the famous Epsom Classic, with Galileo, High Chaparral, Pour Moi, Camelot and Australia already there
Drakenstein stallion Duke Of Marmalade sired the exacta, while the winner was bred by the German stud operation Gestut Farhof, owned by Dr Andreas Jacobs of Maine Chance Farms.
Avontuur stallion Oratorio further enhanced his dazzling reputation as a proven versatile producer of international stakes winners when two of his progeny won on Sunday in the Northern and Southern hemisphere in sprints and staying contests
All week the buyers have remarked on the quality of the yearlings on offer and not only are we enormously grateful to our vendors for sending the cream of the European yearling crop to Tattersalls, we are also delighted that their collective confidence in Europe’s premier yearling sale has been so richly rewarded.
The Shamardal half-brother to Halfway To Heaven was knocked down to John Ferguson on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley operation for 1,700,000 guineas, the highest price for a yearling in the world this year
On the opening day of the 2014 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, a total of 107 lots were sold for 20,185,000 guineas at an average of 188,645 guineas and a median of 140,000 guineas. The average represented the second highest opening day average for the sale, whilst the median, which was up 19% was a new opening day record for the sale.
China Horse Club purchased a total of 5 horses, including top lot, Auvray (Le Havre-Ameyrah/In The Wings), who is earmarked as a potential Melbourne Cup contender.
The classic has a long and proud history dating back to 1955 when it was run as the Cape of Good Hope Guineas
